Don’t mind me, just trying to get the hang of writing again. I saw a video of a kitten getting scared by the sound of an electric guitar and thus, an idea was born.
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He visits her often. More often than a few months ago. More often than he’d like to admit. It’s not that he doesn’t like it, quite the opposite really. He likes it a lot. Besides, what would be the point in searching for the Chaos Emeralds every time he wanted to travel across dimensions if he didn’t want this? The problem lies elsewhere. Why? Why does it seem like he can’t get enough? An answer he has been striving to find for a while now, a question that keeps him up at nights.
“What is this, Sonic?”
At the sound of his name, he pushes his thoughts aside as his attention is quickly reverted to the feline in front of him.
“What’s what, your highness?” he smiles sheepishly, cradling his electric guitar in his embrace as he watches Blaze get up from her chair and kneel on the floor, next to the hedgehog, to inspect the amplifier he brought along. His grin only grows as Blaze glares from below, before turning around again, curiosity taking the best of her.
“This machine,” she says, never backing back from the foreign object. “I’ve never witnessed anything similar to this.”
Her head tilts left and then right and then left again, in an attempt to gain more information about it. She brings her hand closer to it but quickly retracts it. With a frustrated huff, she sits on the floor, on the scarlet carpet that adorned her bedroom, allowing her face to rest on her palm. She seems very interested in it, way too interested, like she is trying to crack a code and her words finally make sense to him.
“You don’t know what it is?” He raises a brow.
She turns to him in response, her eyes flicking between his and the guitar he is holding on his lap. “No.” She shakes her head, but there’s not a hint of embarrassment in the notion. Only...curiosity, the need to learn about it.
“Wow,” Sonic huffs amusedly. To say he was surprised would be an understatement. “You guys really are way too far behind on the technology department. You need to up your game if you ask me.”
Blaze whips her head at the side and Sonic’s smile falls, replaced by a barely audible wince as he closes his eyes.
“Wrong topic.” he shifts on his seat. “Sorry.”
Her gaze is now turned to him, to his emeralds eyes that are looking right back at her. She smiles softly, accepting his apology.
He smiles back, unable to do anything else but that. “That’s an amplifier. You plug your guitar into it, so it can produce the signature electric sound.”
“You mean that’s a guitar?” she points at the instrument that is connected to the ‘amplifier’.
Sonic rubs his nose. “An electric guitar.”
At that, both her arms fall to her sides as her jaw drops. Sonic cocks a brow at her. Playing the guitar is a great achievement (and it does make him look good) but it’s not that impressive. At least, not impressive enough to gain such a reaction from Blaze. However, he is reminded that he has mentioned that he is a guitarist from time to time when she’s been around, so, why was she so taken aback? Unless...
”Don’t tell me you haven’t seen one of these either?” he asks, taking his guitar in his hands to bring it closer to her. “You don’t have guitars here?”
Blaze pushes the guitar back to Sonic’s chest with a single finger. “We do have guitars.” She giggles at his relieved exhale. “Just- not electric ones.” She shruggs and Sonic fights down the urge to let his jaw drop to the floor. If he wants to be honest, it shouldn’t be as much of a surprise to begin with. But it doesn’t really matter.
He bends forward, closer to Blaze who stays perfectly still as she follows his every move with her golden eyes, shining as bright as a thousand suns, trying to understand what he is planning this time around.
“Then, Blaze,” he smirks confidently at her perplexed expression. “Allow me to demonstrate.”
He reaches for the amplifier, turning it on without taking his eyes away from her, without moving back. And to her credit, Blaze didn’t flinch either, despite her eyebrows shooting upwards in apparent question which only added to Sonic’s satisfaction. It is always rewarding to see her expression turn into this wary one she has now, he can almost hear the gears turn in her head.
“I’m all ears.” she says, smiling slightly as he sits back on her bed, right at the spot he was before.
Sonic’s own grin never brushes off from his face. He places his fingers on the neck of the guitar and he strumms on the chords gently just once. The sound that plays through the amplifier is pleasant, not too loud but not too quiet; exactly as it should be and exactly as he was expecting it to be.
What he wasn’t expecting was Blaze jumping backwards, her fur standing on edge, her ears and tail perfectly still and her eyes wide open, focused on the source of the sound.
Sonic doesn’t know what to make of that at first but he can’t help the snort that escapes him. Thankfully, she ignores him (or is too focused elsewhere to hear him), carefully crawling close to the object once more.
But she shots back again, hands and feet quickly planted on the floor as Sonic plays the same chord again. This time, he cracks up, laughing at the scared cat who only now turned her attention to him. Sonic can’t seem to stop and Blaze joins him, as their laughter fills the room.
When they eventually slow down and stop their laughing, they’re both laying on the ground, next to each other, catching their breaths.
“You really are a scaredy cat.” Sonic wipes a tear away.
Blaze glares at him (at least, she tries to) and brings a palm lit in flames close to him. Sonic slowly pushes her arm away from him and that earns him a giggle. She extinguishes the fire from her hand and looks at her ceiling while he watches over her movements.
“In any other case, I would be too embarrassed to speak. But that was unexpected, even for me.” she grins, giving him a side-glance. “It was funny if I’m being honest.”
“You shouldn’t be embarrassed.” He’s quick to interrject. “You, uh, you made me laugh, you made yourself laugh. That’s what counts.”
“Well, what can I say? Your laugh is contagious.”
“Huh.” He’s lost in her eyes for a moment, the golden pools that always seemed to have the power to draw him in, like magnets, he couldn’t resist.
He shuts his eyes in a hurry, before he acts on a whim or does something stupid and clears his throat while getting up, gaze stumbling upon the discarded guitar on the bed. “Alright.” An idea pops in his mind and he smirks. “Don’t go anywhere.” he says in a sing-song voice.
“Where could I go anyway?” She rolls her eyes behind his back, whispering words she knows he is able to hear.
“Oh, I don’t know.” Sonic reaches for his guitar, adjusting the amplifier at the same time. “Maybe you’d want to test out other cat insticts and you’d jump from the window to see if you can land on your feet-”
“Sonic-!”
“Or maybe you’d want to find out if you really have 9 lives.” he finishes as he lays back down, next to her, guitar on his chest.
She rolls her eyes again but this time he doesn’t miss it. “You’re unbearable sometimes.” she smiles.
“Oh, I know, trust me.” he winks in response. “I’ll play something. But can you not get scared? I don’t know how much laughing I can take after this.”
“Sure. No promises though.”
Mimicking his companion, he turns his gaze to the celiing, letting the fingers dance on the chords, letting them play a song he’s never heard before. He is happy Blaze seems to be enjoying it because he doesn’t know what the hell he is doing.
And if he lets his heart take on, leading the fingers to play a song that says all the words he wants to say through some notes, all the words he’d never be able to speak otherwise, he doesn’t let her know, too afraid to reveal his emotions to her but also to himself.
And so, he keeps strumming, he opens his heart to create a song at the spot just for her.
Even if she doesn’t know.
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